ninalanyon · 61-69, T
I presume you mean the Christian heaven. Not Valhalla.
No. What little I have heard people say about the place makes it sound terribly dull.
But regardless of that the one thing most people seem to agree on is that it is eternal. That means I won't be missing anything if I hang around here for another decade or two.
Edit: It has always seemed odd to me that people seem to be so reluctant to shuffle off this mortal coil when they claim to be confident of entering heaven and keen to be there.
No. What little I have heard people say about the place makes it sound terribly dull.
But regardless of that the one thing most people seem to agree on is that it is eternal. That means I won't be missing anything if I hang around here for another decade or two.
Edit: It has always seemed odd to me that people seem to be so reluctant to shuffle off this mortal coil when they claim to be confident of entering heaven and keen to be there.
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@rinkydinkydoink
This near 77 yr stay on Earth has been but a blink of the eye - not enough time to learn anything,
It's enough to learn enough to add to what we as a society and species knows.William of Conches writes:
The ancients had only the books which they themselves wrote, but we have all their books and moreover all those which have been written from the beginning until our time.… Hence we are like a dwarf perched on the shoulders of a giant. The former sees further than the giant, not because of his own stature, but because of the stature of his bearer. Similarly, we [moderns] see more than the ancients, because our writings, modest as they are, are added to their great works.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giantsThe ancients had only the books which they themselves wrote, but we have all their books and moreover all those which have been written from the beginning until our time.… Hence we are like a dwarf perched on the shoulders of a giant. The former sees further than the giant, not because of his own stature, but because of the stature of his bearer. Similarly, we [moderns] see more than the ancients, because our writings, modest as they are, are added to their great works.[5]
rinkydinkydoink · M
@ninalanyon
Give me a moment - there's something Einstein wrote along those lines. I need to find it.
EDIT - - for too long some have said Einstein believed in God because he said "God doesn't play with dice". This short piece fleshes out what he really meant.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-einstein-reconciled-religion-to-science?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Give me a moment - there's something Einstein wrote along those lines. I need to find it.
EDIT - - for too long some have said Einstein believed in God because he said "God doesn't play with dice". This short piece fleshes out what he really meant.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-einstein-reconciled-religion-to-science?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
The word God is for me,” Einstein wrote, “nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends.* No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me.”
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@rinkydinkydoink The standing on the shoulders of giants bit is also in one of Newton's letters but William of Conches said it five centuries earlier.
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
rinkydinkydoink · M
@rinkydinkydoink
EDIT - I can understand why you post the music you do. Also, I don't believe I've ever seen you write anything negative :D
EDIT - I can understand why you post the music you do. Also, I don't believe I've ever seen you write anything negative :D
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
rinkydinkydoink · M
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@rinkydinkydoink I read LONG ago something about the approaching year 100 A.D. was leading to a lot of early Christians to commit suicide to get to Heaven, which definitely cut down on the size of the denomination. If a religions aim is to die and go to Heaven, then suicide HAS to be a no-no if you don't want the religion to die out.